FC7 yum upgrade

Catalin Bucur cata at geniusnet.ro
Fri Jul 27 07:22:41 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 15:32 +0300, Catalin Bucur wrote:
>> -> /boot/grub/grub.conf
>> default=0
>> timeout=7
>> splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
>> 	root (hd0,1)
>> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=Cata
> 
> This "root" is for the /boot not the /, so it shouldn't (usually) be the
> same as the fstab entry for the / partition.  It's for where the kernel
> vmlinux and initrd files are located.
> 
> Do you have a boot partition?  If you don't (e.g. /boot/ is just a
> directory in the tree), then you may have to specify the path (as you've
> done, with /boot/ in front of the vmlinuz filename).  But, you *may*
> find a system is unbootable without a boot partition.  That depends on
> your BIOS & GRUB.  They have to be able to find the boot files.

I don't have a boot partition, /boot it's just a directory. So, it's ok 
from this point of view.

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Catalin Bucur      mailto:cata at geniusnet.ro
NOC @ Genius Network SRL - Galati - Romania




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